This question is a thought experiment I have been doing with some friends who are MFA/professor types. I am curious what you think, and if there are any thoughtful scholarly answers that have been floating around. Here it goes. Imagine you find a book. As a narrative drama and art object, it physically has all the qualities of the Great American Novel, whatever those qualities are. Later you learn the book was created entirely using AI. Is it still a Great American Novel? (Or was it impossible for it to be misidentified in the first place?) Who wrote the book if it is entirely AI generated? Variants: Monkey at a typewriter. Before Shakespeare was ever born, a monkey is born and begins typing at a typewriter. The first word it types is the first word of The Complete Works of Shakespeare. It continues typing the Complete Works of Shakespeare until it types the last word. Then the monkey dies. Is the monkey’s Shakespeare of equal quality to the human Will Shakespeare? These discussions grew out of us talking about ClaudeCode and Pierre Menard’s Quixote. Some friends say the monkey one is too different from AI writing it; others say it is exactly the same situation. What do yall say about this type of question? submitted by /u/theadorerex1
Originally posted by u/theadorerex1 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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